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CROSSFIRE: THE TRIALS OF THE HOLLYWOOD TEN (THE BLACKLIST EPISODE #2)
"Hollywood10". Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia.Download this episode, find on SoundCloud or iTunes.In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed dozens of Hollywood workers to...
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Dorothy Parker (The Blacklist Episode #3)
Embed from Getty ImagesColumnist, poet and celebrated Algonquin Roundtable wit Dorothy Parker spent years in Hollywood, working as a screenwriter in partnership with her second husband, Alan Campbell,...
View ArticleBlacklist Flashback: Bogey Before Bacall
Embed from Getty Images Download this episode, find on SoundCloud or iTunes. Humphrey Bogart was Warner Brothers' most valuable star in 1947, when he, his wife Lauren Bacall, his future African Queen...
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The African Queen: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and John Huston
Embed from Getty ImagesDownload this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.In the late 1940s, as the country was moving to the right and there was pressure on Hollywood to do the same, Katharine...
View ArticleThe Strange Love of Barbara Stanwyck: Robert Taylor (The Blacklist Episode #5)
Embed from Getty ImagesDownload this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.Barbara Stanwyck’s first marriage helped to inspire A Star is Born. Her second marriage, to heartthrob Robert Taylor,...
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Comments and Corrections, March 8, 2016
Sometimes we get emails with comments and corrections that we think our listeners should be aware of. Here are a couple in reference to the first few episodes of our Blacklist series. In reference to...
View ArticleHe Ran All The Way: John Garfield (The Blacklist Episode #6)
Embed from Getty ImagesDownload this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.John Garfield was Brando before Brando -- a Method-style actor who repped the New York working class while becoming a major...
View ArticleBlacklist Flashback: Charlie Chaplin During World War II
Embed from Getty ImagesDownload this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.In 1922, Charlie Chaplin was one of the most beloved men in the world. In 1952, after over a decade of being publicly...
View ArticleMonsieur Verdoux: Charlie Chaplin's Road to Hollywood Exile (The Blacklist...
Embed from Getty ImagesDownload this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.Picking up where last week’s episode left off, we’ll catch up with Chaplin’s post-The Great Dictator activism, talk about...
View ArticleStorm Warning: Ronald Reagan, the FBI and HUAC (The Blacklist Episode #8)
Embed from Getty ImagesDownload this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.The post-war Communist witch hunt had a big impact on Ronald Reagan’s evolution from movie actor to politician, and from...
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She: Richard Nixon + Helen Gahagan Douglas (The Blacklist Episode #9)
Download this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.The wife of actor Melvyn Douglas (Ninotchka, Being There), Helen Gahagan Douglas transformed herself from a Broadway and opera star into an...
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Blacklist Flashback: Howard Hughes + Jane Russell
Download this episode, find on SoundCloud or iTunes.In advance of next week’s episode dealing with Howard Hughes’ role in the blacklist, we revisit our October 2014 episode on Hughes’ relationship...
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Salt of the Earth: Howard Hughes + Paul Jarrico
Embed from Getty ImagesDownload this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.Today we explore one of the more troubling aspects of Howard Hughes’ legacy: the firm hand he played in enforcing the...
View ArticleBorn Yesterday: Judy Holliday (The Blacklist Episode #11)
Embed from Getty ImagesDownload this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her first starring film role (in Born Yesterday) and of her eight major film roles between...
View ArticleBlacklist Flashback: Lena Horne During WWII
Embed from Getty ImagesDownload this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.Stunning singer/actress Lena Horne was the first black performer to be given the full glamour girl star-making treatment....
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Lena Horne + Paul Robeson (Blacklist Episode #12)
Horne and Paul Robeson look over plans for a June 1946 rally at Madison Square Garden, hosted by the Council on African Affairs. Download this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.Horne's last...
View ArticleOn the Waterfront: Elia Kazan (Blacklist Episode #13)
Embed from Getty ImagesDownload this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.Elia Kazan introduced audiences to Warren Beatty, James Dean and Marlon Brando. His films of the 1950s -- including A...
View ArticleAfter the Fall: Arthur Miller (Blacklist Episode #14)
Embed from Getty Images Download this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.Arthur Miller considered Elia Kazan a close friend and collaborator, but when Kazan named names to HUAC, Miller broke with...
View ArticleBlacklist Flashback: Frank Sinatra through 1945
Embed from Getty Images Download this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.Before our episode on Frank Sinatra’s attempt to end the blacklist, we’re going to flashback to an episode from April...
View ArticleFrank Sinatra and Albert Maltz (Breaking the Blacklist, Part 1)
Embed from Getty ImagesDownload this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.In the first of two episodes about major stars attempting to end the Blacklist, we’ll look at Frank Sinatra’s efforts to...
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